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Humanitarian Organization Reduces Application Slowdowns by 94%

Organization Description: This humanitarian group organizes more than 500,000 volunteer employees to help victims of tragedy across the United States. Business Value of Vityl Capacity Management (formerly TeamQuest): Vityl helped this non-profit reduce the number of application slowdowns by 94 percent in only four months. ...
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Financial Services Giant Optimizes, Virtualizes, and Saves Big Money

Business Value of Vityl Capacity Management (formerly TeamQuest): Vityl helped to significantly optimize the physical CPU base, maximize usage of CPU and memory resources, lower the cost per unit of CPU to clients and improve the time to market. The Fortune 500 financial services company now charges 25 percent less per unit of CPU in its virtualized environment. These benefits...
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Capacity Planning at a Czech Bank

Organization Description: In the Czech Republic this bank serves more than 3 million clients and employs over 8000 workers. The bank operates a very extensive IT infrastructure which requires round-the-clock accessibility checks and computing capacity planning. Business Value of Vityl Capacity Management: The Vityl capacity planning solution has given the bank full control...
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Continuously Optimizing IT in Financial Terms

CHALLENGES: Virtualization and increasingly complex agile computing environments are creating difficulties for IT financial controllers and for IT Financial Management (ITFM).  Virtualization breaks the long-standing direct, one-to-one correlation between cost-allocated physical hardware and the IT services it supports. Increasingly dynamic, multi-layered applications have...
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DevOps Development: Keeping the Lights On

Overview: The DevOps methodology embodies two core philosophies: decreasing the lead time of software deployment and the automation of delivery and testing. DevOps emerged as a practical response to the agile development movement, in contrast with traditional, phase-based or “waterfall” development, which is inefficient and labor-intensive. Traditional methods should be phased...
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Dashboards Don't Work (Unless You Have a Metrics Management Strategy)

Tech has had a tremendous impact on the way today’s businesses seek continued growth and improvement. No matter what business they are in, executives everywhere are investing in technology that improves their business processes, gets them ahead of the competition and widens their margins. Ultimately, the return on that investment is determined by how well technology supports a...
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Health and Risk: A New Paradigm for Capacity Management

Capacity management, considered by top analyst firms to be an essential process in any large IT organization, is often so complex that in today’s accelerated business world it cannot be effectively implemented. Changing priorities, increasing complexity and scalable cloud infrastructure have made traditional models for capacity management less relevant. A new paradigm for...
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For Centralized Data Processing, KeHE Relies on Fortra

As the nation’s leading distributor of natural, organic, specialty, ethnic, and gourmet food products, KeHE Distributors has helped thousands of retailers—from the smallest independent stores to the largest supermarket chains—meet the constantly growing demand for products that help people to live well. John Kinnaird is the National Operating Center Manager responsible for...
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Bank of Stockton Turns to Fortra for Reliable, Error-Free Operations

Founded in 1867, Bank of Stockton has always been at the forefront of banking technology innovation. With 17 branches in five counties across central California, Bank of Stockton is known as a community bank with a reputation for continually investing in new technology-based products and services to better serve its customers. Whether working to attract and retain customers,...
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Cashman Equipment Looks to Fortra Professional Services with High Hopes

Cashman Equipment Company is not only one of the highest-rated Caterpillar equipment dealers in North America, but it is also one of the largest privately-owned companies in Nevada. Headquartered in Henderson, they employ over 600 dedicated team members of various professional and technical backgrounds. Nationally recognized by Caterpillar for outstanding sales performance,...